Hi, On Wed 22.Jul'09 at 19:23:23 -0500, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > > So I would like to ask what should I do to recover the missing files > > in .git/refs/heads/ (which apparently is the cause for my issue) and > > how I can avoid losing them in the first place. > > have a look at .git/packed-refs and 'git pack-refs'. Yes, now I learned that the files were not really missing as in "there is something wrong". I will also start to use 'git pack-refs --prune' from time to time now, in adition to 'git gc --prune' and 'git repack -d -a'. But the takes-too-long 'git branch' issue is apparently caused by something else. Thanks Gábor, Carlos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html